Homo Stuperior - We Can't Handle Our Think!

This is a response to thefloppy1's observation, "the root of religions are fine, it's the greed, ego and power crazed idiots that run it that are dangerous."

I pretty much agree, 'floppy', though that whole thing about religions being the root of all evil's probably the greatest red herring of 'em all.

The real problem, or so I maintain, is we as a species have minds dangerously prone to becoming inflamed by concepts/ideas/ideologies/'all encompassing undeniable higher truths'.

If we take a shine to an idea - e.g., black holes or/and dark matter/energy - suddenly we start seeing the bleedin' things everywhere: any day now someone's go'n'o win the Nobel Prize for 'discovering' our bumholes're really black holes, their contents, dark matter.

Similarly, if we take a deep downer on an idea - such as communists or witches - then suddenly we start seeing them everywhere - hence the persistence of phrases like 'witch hunt' and 'reds under the bed'.

Now we have Dawkins supposedly intending to arrest the Pope - that guy's's obsessed with religion as any of the religious maniacs he wants to save the world from.

Such people always remind me of the guys asked by their wives, "Why did you hit me?" to which they indignantly respond, "You MADE me hit you!" as if they're the victims, and'd merely been defending themselves.

Then again that was Pol Pot's justification for exterminating Buddhist monks, people who wore glasses to read books instead of take his word for it, basically anyone who might disagree with him about anything.

It's not like, say, soccer, where it's an incontrovertible scientific FACT Liverpool Football Club's immeasurably superior to Man U!